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Soul Surfer: A Story of Courage and Determination

The Beginning of a Journey

In the year 2003, 13-year-old Bethany Hamilton lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her parents Tom and Cheri, and two older brothers, Noah and Timmy. All are surfers, but she and her best friend, Alana Blanchard, have grown up with a passion for the sport and have competed together most of their childhood.

A Tragic Turn of Events

When Bethany and Alana place first and third respectively at a competition; they become sponsored by Rip Curl who offers them a photo shoot. Both drop out of a church mission trip to Mexico in order to train for the next contest, much to the dismay of their youth leader Sarah Hill. On Halloween, Tom goes to the hospital for a knee surgery, while the girls go surfing with Alana’s father Holt and brother Byron. As Bethany dangles her left arm in the water while she is talking to Alana, a tiger shark unexpectedly attacks and bites off her left arm just below the shoulder. Holt, Alana, and Byron get her out of the water where Holt makes a tourniquet out of his swimshirt to put on her while Byron calls 911 and her mother Cheri. An ambulance meets them on the way to the hospital. Just before starting Tom’s knee surgery, Dr. David Rovinsky is called to the emergency room to treat Bethany. She replaces her father in the operating room. Besides losing her left arm, she also lost over 60% of her blood and Dr. Rovinsky calls her survival a miracle.

The Road to Recovery

The onslaught of paparazzi also proves to be a great strain on the Hamilton family and their privacy. The family is deeply grateful to Holt for his quick thinking and decisive action that saved Bethany’s life. Local fisherman eventually catches and kills the same shark that bit Bethany’s arm off, much to Tom’s satisfaction when he tests the size of its mouth with the bite size on Bethany’s surfboard.

Bethany perseveres and after a recuperation period, gets back in the water, and learns to surf with one arm. Inside Edition offers to provide a prosthetic one that is cosmetically perfect and has bendable joints, in exchange for an interview. She rejects it when she learns it will not help her surf as it is not weight bearing, as a result of the size of her arm stump.

A Return to the Waves

Bethany eventually re-enters the competition and angrily rejects a five-minute head start offered by the judges. She does not perform well because she cannot stay on the board long enough to go out and catch a competitive wave so Malina wins. Disappointed at this loss, she decides to not go surfing again and her friendship with Alana is strained, causing an argument.

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Bethany decides to surprise Sarah by joining the youth group on another mission trip to help the people of Phuket, Thailand who were devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She joins her youth group to help the Thai children get over their fear of the ocean. They are understandably afraid of the water, including a little boy. She decides to go into it with a surfboard, hoping this will coax him into it. It works, and the realization that she can use her gift to inspire people motivates her to take up surfing again.

Tom believes that Bethany possesses a great surfer’s instinct for sensing when the best waves will form, rigs a handle on her surfboard which she can use to prevent falling off while paddling out to the waves. It is not prohibited by the competition’s rules because the judges only score what you do when you catch a wave. Bethany trains for the competition while rekindling her friendship with Alana and enters the national championship. During the competition she performs respectably, though she is still chasing third place. Suddenly, with only minutes left on the clock, the waves die down and all the surfers can only loiter, waiting for the waves to start back up. Tom’s belief in his daughter’s instinct is proven when she is the only one to sense a big wave forming, and she alone paddles out. When it forms, the others cannot get out in time, and she catches it just as the horn sounds. If it is in time, she will win, but the judges rule that the time has expired. Malina is the winner, but she has finally gotten over her differences with Bethany, inviting her up on the platform to share her victory. Bethany thanks Malina for never taking it easy on her and saying she’s a tough competitor. Malina responds that nobody is as tough as Bethany.

A Story of Inspiration

Subsequently, Bethany lets the reporters interview her. One asks her what she would do if given the chance to undo the loss of her arm. She says that she would still lose it because she can embrace more people now than she ever could with both. The film then ends with real video of Bethany surfing after the attack. Also, there are videos of interviews and special appearances that she has made.